Kaitlyn Carl Art

Kaitlyn Carl Art Artist and visual storyteller in Bernville, PA inspired by experiences, memories and adventures that connect and bring people together.

These little paper pieces were the very beginnings of the “Distant Memories” collection. Ahead of the release of that bo...
02/27/2026

These little paper pieces were the very beginnings of the “Distant Memories” collection. Ahead of the release of that body of work, I wanted to share these four studies, framed and ready for hanging.

The whole collection of canvas pieces will be available soon, follow along for updates about the release. Members of my newsletter community get early access to each piece, and the whole story behind the collection before anyone else. Subscribe at the link in my bio so you don’t miss out 🙂

Monochrome studies, available now at the link in my bio!

Part of my shop update last week included these four new pen drawings: three straight from my January adventure to Shena...
02/26/2026

Part of my shop update last week included these four new pen drawings: three straight from my January adventure to Shenandoah National Park, and some black-eyed susans I photographed last summer.

The landscape from Bacon Hollow Overlook is the first pen drawing I’ve ever done like this. I’d love to know what you think…should I do more landscapes from my adventures?

All four pieces are available at the link in my bio.

What started with ordering the wrong size frame turned into the most complimentary pair of pen drawings I’ve ever comple...
02/23/2026

What started with ordering the wrong size frame turned into the most complimentary pair of pen drawings I’ve ever completed, though each stands alone beautifully.

Introducing “Love you” and “Love You More” - two cutie pen and charcoal drawings available now at the link in my bio. Drawings are (respectively) 6” square and 8” square.

“Secrets and Resilience”Locust trees, even on the brightest summer days, have a ghostly appearance to them. Their leaves...
02/20/2026

“Secrets and Resilience”
Locust trees, even on the brightest summer days, have a ghostly appearance to them. Their leaves are a dusty green, bark a grey-brown, and their branches bend like bony, knobbed fingers. Despite all of this, or maybe because of it, they’ve long been one of my favorite trees - holding secrets and resilience.

What started, honestly, as a very surface level painting, in an attempt to capture this tree in all of its achromatic glory, turned into another piece rooted in loss, making the symbolism all that more powerful. What can’t be seen, buried into the second layer of leaves was a mind-wandering adventure from my summer trip to Roseville - though this tree couldn’t be more disconnected from a place six hours away. What was a happy memory for a moment from a place I so cherished, a distraction from the struggle of an abruptly ended long-time friendship, quickly rooted itself deeper. A phone call from Ohio. Late at night. Interrupting my studio daydream. It wasn’t a call to catch up, it was a call for help in a time of a terrible loss.

The reason behind the loss is forever a secret, leaving only resilience for those remaining - to carry forward next to an empty place in the family tree.

Available now at the link in my bio

“Still, They Stand”There is something incredibly special about Shenandoah National Park. Maybe it’s the history rooted i...
02/19/2026

“Still, They Stand”

There is something incredibly special about Shenandoah National Park. Maybe it’s the history rooted in the hills, the priceless views, or the way that you can be “perfectly somewhere” in the middle of nowhere. One thing is for sure, it’s a place that has taken a part of my soul, a place that I cannot get enough of.

Bacon Hollow Overlook is a place I’ve been only once. But scattered at overlooks across the park, there are trees just like this one. A single tree - dead or alive - looking out over a valley, deeply rooted at the edge of an overlook, hanging on as time marches forward. They become even more charming when the clouds are low, and wash out part of the view below: just a tree looking out into the ominous depths with no way of telling what’s beyond, or how far they’d fall if their roots gave way. Still, they stand.

Available now at the link in my bio!

“The Best You Can” and “Unexpected Beauty”One summer, as I went vehemently ripping w**ds out of my flower beds, it occur...
02/18/2026

“The Best You Can” and “Unexpected Beauty”
One summer, as I went vehemently ripping w**ds out of my flower beds, it occurred to me: A w**d doesn’t know it’s a w**d, it just grows where it’s been planted. They just do the best they can with what they’ve been given.

Do dandelions know they are w**ds? For a minute I took pity on them…

I still pull the w**ds, but now it’s a two-fold gentle reminder:
Do the best you can with what you have; no one can ask any more of you than that.
There’s an awful lot of simple beauty in the most unexpected places.

Available now at the link in my bio!

“Tangled in Twilight”There’s an old memory from my middle school years…walking down a farm lane with the buzz of power l...
02/17/2026

“Tangled in Twilight”
There’s an old memory from my middle school years…walking down a farm lane with the buzz of power lines hanging on the thick summer air. That’s what this painting reminds me of. Locusts, corn fields, a dirt lane, and stopping every step to see how far we could get from the lines and still hear them. But this scene instead comes from my drive home. Four days a week, I find myself looking at these power lines across a back road intersection on
my way home from work. The view is clear from those lines straight to the sunset: nothing but a fence row between you and the end of the earth where the sun drops off in the evenings - the lines tangled beautifully with the twilight.

Now available through my online shop! Link in bio.

Coming this weekend… I’ve finally finished the Sunset Silhouettes collection! These six gorgeous little paintings, along...
02/13/2026

Coming this weekend…
I’ve finally finished the Sunset Silhouettes collection! These six gorgeous little paintings, along with a few other pieces I’ve recently completed, will be available Sunday to my newsletter community - including the story behind each piece.

You can sign up at the link in my bio to get early access to the collection, and get all the little back stories (arguably my favorite part)!

Any remaining pieces will go live to everyone on my website Monday.

If this piece is calling your name…“The Ones We Leave Behind” is being entered in the Berks Art Alliance Member Show! Pi...
02/11/2026

If this piece is calling your name…
“The Ones We Leave Behind” is being entered in the Berks Art Alliance Member Show! Pieces are on display through mid-March. Because the piece will be available for purchase through the show venue, it will temporarily be taken off the website.

If this piece is calling your name, today may be your last chance to claim it :)

Sunset SilhouettesA collection of simplicity, brevity and soul-stirring depthComing c**n
02/06/2026

Sunset Silhouettes
A collection of simplicity, brevity and soul-stirring depth

Coming c**n

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